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ABC News Poll of Public Opinion on Crime, December 1982 (ICPSR 8100)

Principal Investigator(s):ABC News

Summary:

This special topic poll is part of a continuing series of
monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a
range of other political and social issues. In this poll, respondents
were questioned regarding their perceptions of crime and the criminal
justice system. Questions assessed the respondents' fear of crime,
perceptions of the seriousness of crime in the United States,
evaluation of the judicial and penal systems, assessment of police
performance, and confidence in the ability of the police to prevent
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This special topic poll is part of a continuing series of
monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a
range of other political and social issues. In this poll, respondents
were questioned regarding their perceptions of crime and the criminal
justice system. Questions assessed the respondents' fear of crime,
perceptions of the seriousness of crime in the United States,
evaluation of the judicial and penal systems, assessment of police
performance, and confidence in the ability of the police to prevent
crime. The poll also asked for respondents' opinions about President
Ronald Reagan's policies, the state of the economy, and government
spending. Demographic information was collected, including the
respondent's sex, age, education level, race, and income level.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

ABC News. ABC NEWS POLL OF PUBLIC OPINION ON CRIME, DECEMBER 1982. Conducted by Chilton Research Services. 2nd ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1983. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08100.v2

Methodology

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1984-03-18

Version History:

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.

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